Today, Runway AI unveiled an early video key framing prototype that offers artists and creatives new opportunities to discover unexpected ideas. Known for its advances in AI for generating video from prompts, Runway AI helps make the creative process faster and more accessible. For example, the company's Gen-3 Alpha model allows users to input text and images to generate unique video clips.

This new video creation tool allows users to take images and connect them together like a map to create a video. Each image is essentially a stop along the journey, and the user can connect these stops to create smooth transitions between them. In other words, it's like telling a story where each part flows into the next.Runway's tools have been used in a variety of projects, including films and music videos, and have influenced contemporary storytelling. Imagine exploring a huge, invisible world full of creative possibilities.

Here's how it works and why it's worth trying.

Inside the video production tool is a “potential space” where prototypes leverage data to imagine new things. Each spot in this space has the potential to become a new picture or idea, and as a user of this tool you can explore and connect ideas as you wish. From there, a map of ideas can be created and eventually turned into a video. The tool uses a graph that looks like a web of connected dots, where each dot is a picture you create. The lines connecting the dots show how those pictures are transformed into a video. The user can then decide how to connect the pictures to create a video. By allowing users to visualize the video in this space before actually generating it, you can tell a better story. Surprises can be added without significantly altering the original image. Text prompts can also be used to change the style of the image, such as making it look like a picture or a cartoon.

Users who want to see how a video looks in different styles and paths should use this tool for exploration; with Runway, users can see their ideas in different styles and paths, explore everything and save what they like. They can explore everything, save what they like, and so on. This is especially useful since many of us creators are non-linear thinkers. We no longer have to follow one straight path to get our ideas to the finish line. We can now branch off and explore in different directions, essentially “choosing our own adventure” from start to finish.

The flexible workspace allows users to organize their ideas as they wish, grouping similar ones together and expanding to try different experiments. What you create is up to you.

Runway AI wants to make it easier for artists to create and explore new ideas. By providing users with tools like Creativity Playground, they are helping you turn your artistic vision into something special, even if you didn't know it was possible.

Runway plans to gradually expand access in the coming months, allowing users to build their ideas with greater creative flow.